Nneoma Albert-Benson

Nneoma Albert-Benson has nine years’ experience in the community development sector, particularly in the protection and enforcement of human rights. Currently, Nneoma is the president of the BEFA Women and Child Care Foundation, where she provides poor women and children with quality legal services. This empowers women to take control of their lives and impacts on the major causes and effects of poverty. She also anchors the Save Women in Prison (SWIP) initiative, where she works to limit and, where possible, prevent the damage done to women as a result of their contact with the criminal justice system. Nneoma Albert-Benson is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, she plans to continue providing legal aid for women and to fully implement her SWIP initiative across Nigeria by providing a viable litigation system accessible to every imprisoned woman.